Remember being warned in school that our offenses would be put on our "permanent record"? Well, see!? It was true. No all you naughty children will pay the price! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Computer Science is a form of applied mathematics. Computer programming is an implementation which can be performed by skilled tradesmen if the computer scientist (assuming the problem is difficult enough to require one) can specify the solution. Many computer scientists program or know how to program, but not all do and it is not a requirement.
Photographing houses, addresses, etc. has been going on for years. As part of GIS and E911 projects we've been paying trucks (Ohio State is a leader in this) to drive down streets, take picture and map the pictures of buildings to addresses and addresses to lat/long. It's so emergency responders will know how to find you when you've "fallen and can't get up". Seriously, there have been a number of times when first responders go to the wrong house or building and so a house burns down or the police break down the wrong doors and scare innocent folks to death.
The USPS has/had a project where they geocoded every delivery address as well. I'm sure that is valuable to any business that wants deliver to your or determine where you are relative to other things so they can determine which stores and restaurants you might patronize or so they can locate their business so it is convenient to you.
As long as they're not coming up and photographing through my windows are backyard, there is nothing wrong.
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Remember being warned in school that our offenses would be put on our "permanent record"? Well, see!? It was true. No all you naughty children will pay the price! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Computer Science is a form of applied mathematics. Computer programming is an implementation which can be performed by skilled tradesmen if the computer scientist (assuming the problem is difficult enough to require one) can specify the solution. Many computer scientists program or know how to program, but not all do and it is not a requirement.
Photographing houses, addresses, etc. has been going on for years. As part of GIS and E911 projects we've been paying trucks (Ohio State is a leader in this) to drive down streets, take picture and map the pictures of buildings to addresses and addresses to lat/long. It's so emergency responders will know how to find you when you've "fallen and can't get up". Seriously, there have been a number of times when first responders go to the wrong house or building and so a house burns down or the police break down the wrong doors and scare innocent folks to death. The USPS has/had a project where they geocoded every delivery address as well. I'm sure that is valuable to any business that wants deliver to your or determine where you are relative to other things so they can determine which stores and restaurants you might patronize or so they can locate their business so it is convenient to you. As long as they're not coming up and photographing through my windows are backyard, there is nothing wrong.